Will Power's 'Fetch Clay, Make Man' From Hartford to Off-Broadway

K. Todd Freeman

K. Todd Freeman

K. Todd Freeman

FRANK RIZZO, rizzo@courant.comHartford Courant

“Fetch Clay, Make Man,” will make its off-Broadway bow later this summer. The play was written by Will Power, an Aetna Playwriting Fellow at Hartford Stage where the show received a reading at its “Brand:NEW” Play Reading Series.

Now the show will play off-Broadway in a production directed by Des McAnuff. Previews beginning Aug. 23 at the New York Theater Workshop, 79 East 4 St., between Bowery and Second Avenue. Opening night is Sept.12 and runs through Oct. 13.

The play “explores the improbable bond that forms between two drastically different and influential cultural icons.: Cassius Clay and Stepin Fetchit. One a vibrant and audacious youth, the other a resentful and almost forgotten relic.”

Ben Vereen played Fetchit in the Hartford reading. The new cast will be: Ray Fisher plays Clay and K. Todd Freeman is Fetchit.